The article describes a selection of students big on dreams and low on hopes. The future is bleak for them, and they know it.
I am, of course, not insensitive to the way media crafts its narratives, but of the ten or so 20-somethings they interviewed, two were chefs, one an interior designer,&#133 Read the rest

The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are not to know that he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false. The fact about himself that the bullshitter hides, on the other hand, is that the truth-values of his statements&#133 Read the rest

Rona Economou dropped some serious coin on education and professional training
~ likely at least ~ US$ 200K…
This is where she works:

“The sweet smell of success? So this is really better than working at Mickey D’s?”
Maybe she would have been better off keeping that tuition money and getting the kind of free professional management training McDonalds&#133 Read the rest

The Smithsonian: Why Are Finland’s Schools Successful?
The article describes the “whatever it takes” attitude of the Finnish system, and throws in some mouth watering stats: 62000 teachers with master’s degrees, selected from the top 10% of the nation’s graduates; 30% of kids get extra help; and Finns routinely rank among the best readers, math&#133 Read the rest

Question (from “Abel”): Ecstatic about landing a tenure-track job last year, my partner and I moved to a place where we’d rather not live. We figured that a few years here wouldn’t be bad and, anyway, the university would be something of an oasis. The

A pre-school in Sweden is going to achieve gender equality. The idea is to remove any stimulation that might give the kids an idea of whether they’re boys or girls, according to society’s definition of these. Gendered toys will be available, but they’ll be “placed side by side to encourage a child to play with whatever he or&#133 Read the rest

“I always hear stories about how we can’t find engineers, and that’s why we’re emphasizing Math and Science … We want to start making Science cool. I want people to feel about the next big energy breakthrough and the next big Internet breakthrough the same way they felt about the moonwalk.”
So said President Obama at a town&#133 Read the rest

William Pannapacker writes a two-part article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (Part 1Part 2) in response to the recent book Academically Adrift by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa. According to Pannapacker, Arum and Roska find that “at least 45 percent of undergraduates demonstrated ‘no improvement in critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing skills in the&#133 Read the rest